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freedom ofinformation laws, show that InteractiveScienceCentre, istobebuilt yet to issue a tender for the project, de- higher due to the delay. Correspondthe project has effectively stalled amid in part of the National Concert Hall in spite signing a 2013 agreement with the ence between the parties shows that

Seán McCárthaigh

Senior Ireland Reporter

  • a dispute over the original agreement.
  • Dublin. It is expected to house 200 ex- NCSC to complete the centre in 2016. Danny O’Hare, the NCSC chairman, is

  • Plans to deliver Ireland’s first national
  • They show that the OPW believes it hibits including a €2 million planetari-
  • It is understood that the duration of becoming increasingly frustrated.

  • science centre for children may be de- has been threatened with legal action. um, attracting more than 150,000 visi- the contract will be 50 months which
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  • layed until at least 2023 amid a row It has responded by warning the tors a year.
  • means the centre is unlikely to open being in “flagrant and continuing”

  • Ireland is the only country in the EU before 2023 at the earliest. breachoftheagreementbynotadvanc-
  • between the promoters and the Office National Children’s Science Centre

  • of Public Works (OPW).
  • (NCSC) that political support for the withoutadedicated, interactivescience
  • The OPW is prepared to commit ing the project.

  • The state-backed centre was to open project has waned.
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  • in 2016 but documents, obtained under
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Concern over Naughten’s dinner with head of bid

Peter O’Dwyer

Senior Ireland Business Reporter

Denis Naughten was told of potential changes relating to the last remaining bidderfortheNationalBroadbandPlan at a private dinner hosted by the businessman heading the consortium, The Times can reveal. The communications minister accepted an invitation from David McCourt, the head of Granahan McCourt, to attend a private dinner in New York earlier this year. Mr Naughten, who was in New York to address the United Nations, met Mr McCourt with officials from his department in mid-July. At that point Mr McCourt’s consortium still included SSE, the British infrastructure company, as well as Granahan McCourt, Enet and others. The consortium was the only bidder remaining after Eir and Siro, a joint venture between Vodafone and the ESB, walked away from the process. SSE’s withdrawal was subsequently announced at the end of July.

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At the dinner, the telecoms entrepreneur reassured Mr Naughten of his commitment to the project to provide high-speed broadband to 543,000 rural homes and businesses and told him thatarequestcouldbemadetoalterthe consortium as SSE may withdraw. Actavo, the engineering services company owned by Denis O’Brien, is one of several new partners involved in Granahan McCourt’s bid, along with Nokia, the Kelly Group and KN Group. A spokesman for the Department of Communicationsconfirmedthedetails

Doctors discharge suicidal patients to ‘pass the buck’

Vulnerable at risk because staff not properly trained, says top psychologist

suicidal patients once their medical primary problem regardless of other family’s concern that the woman, who of the dinner yesterday. He said: “Durproblem has been dealt with. Too often issues such as drug or alcohol addic- had psychiatric problems and was ing the course of this social event Mr

Aaron Rogan Senior Ireland Reporter

Doctors are discharging suicidal doctors were not equipped to deal with tion. “It is better than the current addicted to drugs, was repeatedly McCourt mentioned to the minister patients from emergency departments suicidal patients if they did not require passing-the-buck approach that hap- discharged from hospitals and acute that the department had raised issues to“getridoftherisk”,aleadingpsychol- psychiatric care and simply discharged pens where everyone’s just trying to get mental health wards even after she told regardingthespeedwithwhichhiscon-

  • ogist has said.
  • them instead, he said.
  • rid of the risk,” he said.
  • a counsellor she wanted to die.
  • sortium was submitting required docu-

  • Eoin Galavan, a clinical psychologist
  • Mental health experts are calling for
  • Today The Times reveals the details
  • The case mirrors that of Caoilte Ó mentation to the NBP procurement

and expert in suicide prevention, said Ireland to adopt a “no wrong door” ofawomanfromCorkwhodiedaged31 Broin, whose body was found in the process, and the risk of further delays.

  • that vulnerable people are being placed framework that would require all ser- in May this year after her family said Liffey in 2016. His family said it was dif-
  • “Mr McCourt also said that a request

in danger because hospital staff are not vices to link up so that suicidal people she was discharged from an emergency ficulttogetcareforhimbecausehewas may be submitted to the department properly trained to deal with them. He said doctors in emergency

  • are not left without proper treatment.
  • department despite their pleas for her repeatedly turned away from mental around a potential change to the

Dr Galavan said that a person’s sui- tobedetainedundertheMentalHealth healthservicesashehadproblemswith consortium structure. In this context, departments must stop discharging cidal tendencies must be treated as the Act. Letters to the hospital show the Continued on page 8, col 5

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Calls for report on campus sexual assault and violence

  • Budget talks for Housebuilding
  • Noise row over

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The Krispy Kreme doughnut shop that opened in Dublin last week has been forced to close a drive through at night after neighbours complained about noise. Page 9

  • childcare cash
  • plan ‘sped up’

Katherine Zappone is locked in “difficult” budget negotiations with the finance minister to secure funding to extend the affordable childcare scheme. Page 4
Leo Varadkar says that the government is

  • speeding up its
  • said. She had previously backed me,
  • I
  • have been inundated with

Ellen Coyne Senior Ireland Reporter

  • housebuilding
  • mandatory consent classes for all hundreds of letters and mails from

programme and has dismissed accusations that it has “sat on the sidelines”. Page 6
Universities, students and the freshers. She said that she was holding women and girls from every part of this governmenthavepledgedtojoinforces today’s forum to hear “first hand” what island,” she said.

  • to examine the scale of sexual violence universities were doing to tackle sexual
  • “Some people may never be able to

  • speak to another person about their
  • on campuses across Ireland.
  • violence.

  • Mary Mitchell O’Connor, the junior
  • ThejusticeministerhaspraisedLynn experience of sexual assault, much less

minister for higher education, said that Ruane, the student activist and inde- a garda. Just because someone cannot sexual assault was “too common” for pendent senator, for starting a national report, though, does not mean they

COMMENT

too many third level students. She will conversation about sexual violence. be joined by Charlie Flanagan, the Mr Flanagan told Ms Ruane, who should be invisible.
“We need a survey that goes into

The new garda commissioner must promote

justice minister, and representatives recently spoke about her experience of communities, that can reach survivors from the gardaí at a forum on sexual rape, that a “technical issue” was delay- intheirownsurroundingsandtranslate

a vision of reform and service for his force

  • violence in Dublin Castle today.
  • ing the first national sexual violence their experiences, their pain in sharing

CORMAC LUCEY, PAGE 13

It was reported last month that three study in 12 years. He has promised a that part of themselves into a better students had said they were sexually second Sexual Assault and Violence in understanding of the realities of sexual assaulted during freshers week at Ireland (SAVI) report. The first was in violence, the barriers to accessing law UniversityCollegeCork. Astudybythe 2002, and the government has failed to enforcement, medical and therapeutic National University of Ireland Galway deliver on a promise to carry out a services for those abused and their

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former Mayo manager, will be put forward for ratification at an executive committee meeting to resume the role that he left in

2014. Page 56

  • this summer said that 70 per cent of second one for over four years.
  • familiesandhowthestatecandobetter

  • mocking of the woman services creates
  • womenand40percentofmenhadsuf-
  • MsRuanerevealedthatshehadbeen and respond to these needs.”

who made sex-assault claims against the judge he has chosen for the Supreme Court was criticised by three key senators. Page 24

  • opportunities but also
  • fered some level of sexual harassment raped in her own home in 2010 after a
  • Mr Flanagan said that it was

poses risks that could lead to another crisis, a Central Bank of

  • by the end of college.
  • party. A man let himself into her room “extremely important” to the govern-

“Thisproblemwillonlybeeffectively and raped her while she was asleep. She ment to have up to date and reliable tackled by everyone working together. woke up during the attack. Thirdlevelinstitutionshavearesponsi- Yesterday she asked Mr Flanagan in data on sexual violence in Ireland.

  • He said that a “technical issue” with
  • Ireladn deputy

governor said. Page 31 bility in this area, and many have run the Seanad when the government was carrying out the report was delaying sexual consent workshops for their goingtocarryoutasecondSAVIreport him being able to get government students. These can have a significant to try and understand the scale of approval to set up a second SAVI. He positive impact on the students they sexual violence. “For the last two addedthathewaskeentoworkwithMs engage with,” Ms Mitchell O’Connor weeks, since I shared what happened to Ruane on the matter.

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the onion and garlic. Soften the

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Tuscan chicken

This is one of those easy but special chicken stews, flavoured with lemon and rosemary, white wine and stock. The gravy bobs with black and green pitted olives, the flavours and textures complemented by boiled potatoes to mash into the delicious sauce. Alternatively, serve with crusty bread and green beans.

industry-wide review of tracker mortgage accounts. The governor will say

Niamh Lyons Ireland Political Editor remaining 1 tbsp

Banks have paid out €580 million to some banks adopted a “narrowly legal38,400 affected tracker mortgage cus- istic approach” with some offering ini-

Katie O’Neill Ireland Reporter oil. Return the chicken.

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olive oil; 1 onion; 2 garlic cloves; 2 sprigs rosemary; 250ml chicken stock; 250ml white wine; 1 lemon; 50g green pitted

  • Bank will tell a committee today.
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PhilipLanewillconfirmthatthepro- “While such issues were addressed, levy for medical card holders before cess is “significantly advanced”, with they raised serious questions about the next week’s budget.

  • 93 per cent of those who were taken off current and not just historic culture in
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Mr Lane will also stress that the cen- tion of General Practitioners (NAGP) low rates receiving offers of redress. Four of the five main lenders are the banks.”

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close to completing their redress and tral bank has placed a “specific focus” have jointly called for an end to the fee, compensation process, with the on improving the levels of diversity at describing it as a levy on the health and Central Bank “exerting significant senior levels in financial services firms. wellbeing of the least well-off.

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  • pressure” on the remaining lender.
  • “The aim is to improve decision-mak-
  • Maitiú Ó Tuathail, of NAGP, said the

“We will continue to challenge them ing with these firms, reduce the risk of feewasabarriertopatientsgettingvital
[lenders] where necessary in order to groupthink,improveriskmanagement, medicine. He said: “A system must be confirm that all groups of affected and in doing so, ensure that organisa- introduced whereby marginalised customers have been identified and tions give sufficient priority to the people are exempted from fees which included for redress and compensa- experience and treatment of their they frequently cannot afford.” Dr Ó

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  • tion,” Mr Lane will tell the Oireachtas customers,” he will say.
  • Tuathail,pointedtoresearchfrom2016

finance committee today. Separate Hewillalsoupdatethecommitteeon by UCD and Trinity College Dublin ac-

Lindsey Bareham

enforcement investigations into six preparations for Britain leaving the ademics which showed that when the

  • lenders are in progress.
  • European Union.

“We have received more than 100 there was a fall in medicine use.
A levy of 50 cent per item was introprescription charges were introduced
There are still concerns about the culture within the financial sector, Brexit-related applications for authoriaccording to the governor. He will also sation, across a number of sectors,” he duced for medical card holders in 2010 acknowledgethedetrimentaland“dev- will say. The applicants, which include and rose in previous budgets to €2.

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Why tackling corruption needs to

  • astating” effect that the failures of banks, investment companies and
  • Daragh Connolly, of the IPU, said

lenders have had on customers, includ- commercial and retail insurance, in- people should be focusing on getting

become a priority for Ireland

ing the loss of homes and properties. The Central Bank conducted an or from Ireland to the EU. tend to sell directly to Irish customers well, “not worrying about how they will pay for their next vital prescription”.

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to discuss the broadband plan. The said the minister had left himself open spokesman said one of the minister’s to accusations of having been “swayed” officials noted the information relayed by Mr McCourt.

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  • Mr McCourt sought to reassure the by Mr McCourt and passed it on to the
  • Mr Ryan said: “I think the question is

minister of his commitment to the National Broadband Division upon his what did they discuss, why did he have

  • process and that his team was taking all return to Dublin.
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  • Dáil Éireann

    Dáil Éireann

    DÁIL ÉIREANN AN COMHCHOISTE UM FEIDHMIÚ CHOMHAONTÚ AOINE AN CHÉASTA JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT Dé Máirt, 15 Meitheamh 2021 Tuesday, 15 June 2021 Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 9.30 a.m. The Joint Committee met at 9.30 a.m. Comhaltaí a bhí i láthair / Members present: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Seanadóirí / Senators Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Frances Black, Rose Conway-Walsh, Niall Blaney, James Lawless, Emer Currie, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, John McGahon, Brendan Smith. Niall Ó Donnghaile. I láthair / In attendance: Senator Erin McGreehan. Teachta / Deputy Fergus O’Dowd sa Chathaoir / in the Chair. 1 JIGFA Business of Joint Committee Chairman: Apologies have been received from Senators Mullen and Hoey, and Michelle Gildernew, MP. All Oireachtas Members have to attend this meeting remotely from their of- fices within the Leinster House complex. Remote participation from outside the Leinster House complex is not possible. If there is unwanted feedback, it may be necessary to mute everyone and then the person speaking can unmute himself or herself. This meeting is a continuation of our discussion with Ireland’s Future and so we will con- tinue from where we left off, sticking to the same rotation as in the previous meeting, starting with Sinn Féin, followed by the Labour Party and the Green Party. In the next round it will be Sinn Féin, the Labour Party, the Green Party, Independents and Aontú, followed by Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and SDLP. Is that agreed? Agreed. Engagement with Ireland’s Future (Resumed) Chairman: We continue our engagement with Mr.
  • Northern Ireland Assembly COMMITTEE for THE

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  • Report on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Parent's

    Report on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Parent's

    An Comhchoiste um Leanaí, Míchumas, Comhionannas agus Lánpháirtíocht Tuarascáil maidir leis an nGrinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach ar Scéim Ghinearálta an Bhille um Shaoire agus Sochar Tuismitheora (Leasú) 2020 Feabhra 2021 Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration Report on pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Parents’ Leave and Benefit (Amendment) Bill 2020 February 2021 CDEI 33 002 TITHE AN OIREACHTAIS AN COMHCHOISTE UM LEANAÍ, MÍCHUMAS, COMHIONANNAS AGUS LÁNPHÁIRTÍOCHT Tuarascáil maidir leis an nGrinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach ar Scéim Ghinearálta an Bhille um Shaoire agus Sochar Tuismitheora (Leasú) Feabhra 2020 _______________ HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS JOINT COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN, DISABILITY, EQUALITY AND INTEGRATION Report on pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Parents’ Leave and Benefit (Amendment) Bill 2020 February 2021 CDEI 33 002 Contents Cathaoirleach’s Preface ....................................................................... 3 Background ....................................................................................... 4 General Scheme ........................................................................................................... 4 Need for legislation ........................................................................................................ 5 Pre-legislative scrutiny by the Committee .............................................. 5 Key issues identified by the Committee .................................................. 5 Stakeholder Views
  • Little Village

    Little Village

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  • Cross-Border Workers Coalition Update November 2020

    Cross-Border Workers Coalition Update November 2020 Recent campaign progress The Cross-Border Workers Coalition has had continued engagement with political representatives in Oireachtas, the Northern Ireland Assembly and other stakeholders to build a strong coalition of support. During the recent Committee Stage of the Finance Bill in the Dáil, Pearse Doherty TD raised the issue and received a commitment from the Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe TD that the ‘Tax Strategy Group’ would consider this from a pragmatic point of view. Senator Emer Currie and Joe McHugh TD brought forward a motion on the issue to the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. During this Paschal Donohoe TD again committed to get the Revenue Commissioner to consider this from a practical point of view. The Coalition were invited to feed into a forthcoming report on future working by Dr Cathal FitzGerald and the National Economic and Social Council which is an advisory body to the Taoiseach and the newly established Shared Island Unit. NESC intend to include the issues raised by the CBWC into their report. The Coalition recently met with the Joint Secretariat to the North South Ministerial Council, Mark Hannify who committed to highlight the concerns of the group once again to the Office of the Taoiseach, Department of Finance and the Department of Foreign Affairs. Next steps The CBWC will be continuing to engage with political representatives to ensure the commitments which have been made are followed through on. The East-West dimension in respect of tax and HMRC is something which we are intending to focus upon and will be increasing our engagement with the Northern Ireland Office, the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee and MPs.